In 1959 he introduced the .454 Casull cartridge featuring a case 1.383" long—some .098" longer than a .45 Colt case—and a thicker web in the head of the case that Casull claimed to get more ...

This reinforces the power advantage of the .45 Colt/.454 Casull duo, but there are so many more factory ammunition options available for the .44 Special and .44 Magnum, offering more versatility.

DoubleTap Ammunition offers a standard-pressure .45 Colt load topped with a 255-grain semi-wadcutter listed at 920 f.p.s. and a 360-grain hard-cast solid .45 Colt +P launching at about 1,200 f.p.s.

Gutierrez-Reed's lawyer Jason Bowles told Reuters that no such conversation took place, that she had never bought nor had access to live long Colt .45 ammunition and that her father kept her long ...

The good Samaritan - later revealed to be retired Arizona police officer Troy Teske, a friend of Gutierrez-Reed's father, the longtime Hollywood armorer Thell Reed - brought a sample of the ...

Mr. Kenney testified that during that production, some cast members had left the set to shoot live ammunition — including some .45-caliber Long Colt rounds — in what he referred to as ...

The newly designed .45 Long Colt cartridges were also famously powerful, and it was just as useful to soldiers in battle as it was to sheriffs and frontiersmen. The firearm would eventually become ...

The Maligned Cartridge in Question: the .38 Long Colt The oh-so-maligned .38 Long Colt cartridge started off its life as a black powder cartridge introduced by Colt’s Manufacturing Company in 1875.

On the left, .45 Long Colt round. On the right, a blank. ... Gutierrez Reed’s attorneys have floated the possibility that someone with access to the set may have "sabotaged" the ammo supply.

The prop supplier for "Rust" said the movie’s armorer told him that before the production she bought the same type of ammunition as the live round that killed the cinematographer during filming ...